Bent County register., 1887-08-13

SeventY-five years ago the first to-
matoes grown in this country We're
cultivated as strange and, snowy
horticultural curiosity in garden in
Salem, Massachusetts. Forty-five
years ago, or little more, they be-
gan to be used as y vegetable in their
season.
There being no little dysentary in
the community, it,lnay be well for it
TO be known that salt and cider vim
egar will cure obstinate cases of diar-
rhea. While, speaking of salt, it
may also be remembered that equal
parts of strong BRINE apd spirits of
camphor, applied to the teeth, is a
cure for toothache.-Las Vegas sop
tic"
Senator Malone is making splen-
did showing in Virginia, and it is
among the possibilities that he will
be able to wrest the State from the
Democracy Mt the next Presidential
election. He complains that the
Democrats steal his ideas after first
opposing them, and then claim them
as their own. 1t but shows that the
Republican party in Virginia, as
elsewhere, is always found in the yan.
1t leads, and the Democracy brings
up the rear, pulling back all the time
as hard as it can.-Denver .'Repub-
licau."
This may be a drouthy country,
rain may not come at seasonable
times, hot winds may blow and parch
and dry the the crops, grasshoppers
may devour every living twrg or
plant, but as such things have no,
been known heretofore for ten years
at least, nobody is lying awake al
night worrying about the may be
part of it. To travel through the
country and see fine fields of corn
and oats, to see young trees growing,
to look npon well improved farms,
and see great stacks of milet piled
up in the fields, is evidence enough
that the "Great American Desert"
has vanished, that it has been taken
off the maps of the world. There is
nothing discouraging in the present
outlook for Colorado, but on the
other hand all things point to a grand
uccess.-Cranada Exponent"
The "Globe-Denocrat says: Cor
por,l punishment for vagabondage
is still resorted to in certain of the
Sosthern States. In Forsyth, Geor-
gia, recently white man named
Austin, thoroughly worthless fel-
low, incurred the dislike of that COM
munity and was told to leave the
place. Upon his refusal to do so,
several prominent citizens took hold
of him and gave him seventy-five
lashes. This accomplished the
object, and Austin Will hardly feel
desirous of returning for similar
reception. While this method of
punishment is hardly to be upheld in
our times, still If it were more fire.
quently applied to tramps and similar
back yard rodents, TO whom the lock-
up has no longer terrors, it is quite
safe to say that these free-and-easy-
going knights of leisure would soon
have to move congenial cleims.
We believe in the man or wom-
an who has "enemics." This does
not seem sound, but it is. Your
milk-andwater people, who content
themselves with simply doing TO
harm, at the same time do no good
They are mere negatives. Your Kan
of force, who does not wait for
stone to get out of his way, but man
fully rolls it oyer, may, unintention-
ally, hurt somebody's toes in the act,
but thousands who have to go that
way will thank him for clearing it,
The man who has 10 enemies Is gen
orally a sickly, creeping, or cowardly
creature, caring for no one but him
self-smirking and creeping his un-
challenged way to the obscuiity he
merits. He adds nothing TO the
common stock, does no good in the